Early years, life chances and equality

This report by Paul Johnson and Yulia Kossykh, Frontier Economics, draws together existing knowledge on groups within the population who experience disadvantage in life chances.  At school, for instance, girls do better than boys, disabled students' aspirations are no different from those of non-disabled students, and children from minority ethnic communities generally perform better than other children once poverty is controlled for.  In employment, however, women, disabled people and people from minority ethnic communities all earn less. 

The report reviews what is known about the reasons for such differences and highlights areas where better data are needed.

The report can be downloaded here.